Tag: Upper Canada

Earle Gray Social History, Uncategorised, Unfamiliar History

Regulated Life in old muddy York

York, Upper Canada, the future Toronto in 1803. Unknown artist. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1231,F1231_it0897. Wikimedia Commons. York (Toronto), bakers were required to “stamp each Loaf or Biscuit” with their initials, and homeowners were required to keep a ladder leaning against the eves, as stipulated in “REGULATIONS for the POLICE,” published in the Upper […]

Earle Gray Immigration and emigration, Law and order, Social History

Peasants Don’t Doff Hats As Anarchy Foreseen In Doomed Democracy

  Liberty, democracy and freedom from want, hunger and an oppressive aristocracy were said to prevail among peasants from Europe in the Upper Canada of 1821. That was just 16 years before the peasants mounted armed rebellions against the ruling aristocracies of the Family Compact in Upper Canada and the Chateau Clique in Lower Canada. […]